200GB cache, working on internal 1TB SSD, huge video files and the OS all on 1TB SSD ( which might be questionable quality endurance wise ). This is just asking

200GB cache, working on internal 1TB SSD, huge video files and the OS all on 1TB SSD ( which might be questionable quality endurance wise ). This is just asking for disaster. I suspect that the SSD had just reached the limit on total bytes written and went belly up. Not having backup is a cherry on top. People just literally asking for disaster to happen. Curious why Medium even bother with publishing articles like this.